Sam Altman says DRAM capacity should go to data centers, not PCs
Original title: Sam Altman says DRAM capacity should go to data centers, not personal computers
In a Cheeky Pint interview, he called home DRAM and local inference quite terrible because memory sits idle most of the time.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told YouTube channel Cheeky Pint that putting limited DRAM in personal computers is "quite terrible" from a global allocation perspective. He said home memory is used only a small share of the time and argued data centers offer better utilization, including for local inference. Tom's Hardware reported the remarks, which drew criticism in Hacker News comments.
- Altman said consumer DRAM is used about 5 percent of the time.
- He tied the argument to local inference as well as home PCs.
- The comments were made in an interview with Cheeky Pint.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has data centers full of memory, but seemingly it's the 32GB of RAM in your desktop that's the problem. In an interview over beers with the YouTube channel Cheeky Pint, Altman said that local inference, and, by extension, people having DRAM in computers at home, is "quite terrible." Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox.
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